Legal Status of Cartoon Pornography Depicting Minors - Brazil

Brazil

While the simple visualization of cartoons depicting sexual acts involving fictional look-alikes of human minors can not be illegal in itself, possession and especially production and/or distribution can be interpreted in courts to be of the same level of actual child pornography, since legislation is vague on the subject, criminalising de facto child pornography created by image manipulations as the Italian legislation, though not excluding cartoon pornography from such scenario (see Articles 241-C and 241-E of the Code of Minors here, in Portuguese, and here, in English).

Nevertheless, such scenario is very remote, as Brazilian courts do not often charge people for victimless crimes, especially those related to sexuality (for example, Brazil was one of the first Western countries to abolish criminalization of homosexuality, doing so in 1830; while the age of consent is 14, the 18-year-old sexual partner of a consenting 13-year-old was once freed from precautionary imprisonment after less than two days by a judge, and he was not convicted thereafter; Brazil criminalizes neither zoophilia in the absence of physical harm nor pornography of it).